Word: regions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...valuable Mexican collection, which is still uncatalogued, has been received recently by the Peabody Museum. It formed part of that collected by Prince Maximillian from the region of the City of Mexico and the State of Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico, and is valuable for its great age and the rarity of the specimens which it includes. These represent gods, masks, and a number of single specimens, as a ceremonial axe, coiled serpent and carved vessel. These are carved from stone and from lava, and in some cases show evidences of an original covering of stucco...
...soul." In the religions of the ancient world, men had many different conceptions of what the soul is. The Egyptians believed that the soul remained with the body after death, and so invented a means of preserving the body. In the Odyssey we hear of the souls inhabiting a region of shadowy caves beneath the earth, and again of the souls of heroes, placed in the sky above with the Gods. Another conception is that the soul is a shadowy double of the man, which lingers with his remains after death, or, according to Plato, it is the true self...
...circular was sent out yesterday by the Observatory giving the results of the photographs of the heavens in the region where the new star appeared. These photographs were taken before and after its appearance and include negatives made from the spectrum of the star. When the spectrum first appeared, it did not show the star to be different from those of the Orion type, but the change that took place later brought the spectrum into similarity with that of a typical new star. Photographic astronomy has not in the case of previous new stars, shown this change. The star...
Both scenes are in the kingdom of the "Birds," who inhabit a region half way between heaven and earth and, in so doing, prevent the prayers and sacrifices of men from ascending to the Gods, at which the latter are greatly angered...
...subscription $200,000 to be added to the present very small endowment fund of the school. Dr. Nies in a tour covering a year, examined the whole territory of the Holy Land, and his search resulted in the surprising discovery that in Palestine, which is archaeologically the most interesting region of the world, almost no excavations and no organized research are being conducted. The surveys of the British Palestine Exploration Fund, though carefully and thoroughly carried out, have covered but a very small part of the territory, and the valuable archaeological relics scatte red over the rest...